mere channel; but during the next eighty miles of its course inland
it again widens, this section of it being known as Groswater Bay or
Lake Melville.

The extreme western end of the inlet is called Goose Bay. Into
this bay flows the Grand or Hamilton River, one of the largest in
Labrador. From its source among the lakes on the interior plateau,
the Grand River first sweeps down in a southeasterly direction and
then bends northeasterly to reach the end of Hamilton Inlet. The
tributaries of the lakes forming the headwaters of the Grand River
connect it indirectly with Lake Michikamau (Big Water). This, the
largest lake in eastern Labrador, is between eighty and ninety
miles in length, with a width varying from six to twenty-five
miles.

The Grand River, as well as a portion of Lake Michikamau, some
years ago was explored and correctly mapped; but the other rivers
that flow to the eastward have either been mapped only from hearsay
or not at all. Of the several rivers flowing into Ungava Bay, the
Koksoak alone has been explored. This river, which is the largest
of those flowing north, rises in lakes to the westward of Lake
Michikamau. Next to the Koksoak, the George is the best known of
the rivers emptying into Ungava Bay, as well as the second largest;
but while it has been learned that its source is among the lakes to
the northward of Michikamau, it has been mapped only from hearsay.

Now if the reader will turn to the accompanying map of Labrador
made by Mr. A. P. Low of the Canadian Geological Survey, he will
see that the body of water known as Grand Lake is represented
thereon merely as the widening out of a large river, called the